PRI's Focus on Health Care
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Listen to Sally Pipes and Naomi Lopez on PRI's "Next Round" Podcast: The Future of Health Care in America
June 29, 2021
This podcast features PRI President Sally Pipes and the Goldwater Institutes Director of Health Care Policy Naomi Lopez in an insightful discussion on health care in America and what lies ahead under the Biden-Harris administration.
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Register now! On July 19, join PRI and the Pioneer Institute for a free webinar featuring healthcare experts and patient advocates discussing the policy and advocacy landscape on ICER, equity, and innovation.
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Stop the Bid to Expand Medicare
Forbes.com | Sally C. Pipes
July 6, 2021
Progressives in Congress are laying the groundwork to expand Medicare by the slimmest of margins later this year. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the head of the Senate Budget Committee, is teeing up a $6 trillion legislative package ([link removed]) that would, among other things, lower the age at which older adults become eligible for Medicare to 60 from 65. And they’d use budget reconciliation—the complicated Senate procedure that requires only a simple majority to advance legislation—to expand the entitlement.
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America's Center for Disease Confusion
National Review | Sally C. Pipes
July 5, 2021
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) deserve much of the blame for plummeting vaccination rates. Public-health officials have botched their pandemic response and messaging nearly every step of the way — inadvertently stoking skepticism of the vaccines.
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Democrats' Medicare Plan Lavishes Billions on Patients Who Don't Need It
Newsmax | Sally C. Pipes
July 2, 2021
Medicare is running out of money. According to a recent report ([link removed]) from the Congressional Budget Office, the program’s Part A hospital insurance trust fund is projected to be insolvent in 2024. At that point, there won’t be enough tax revenue coming in to cover the claims costs of the program’s beneficiaries.
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